[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk API package remove does not check dependency

[Paschedag, Robert]

It's not spacewalks responsibility to check for package dependencies. It just downloads the packages and stores them. That's it.


The "client" is responsible to calculate the dependencies and "get" the missing packages from the repo


Also it sounds strange to me, that net-snmp depends on something from mysql (but I did not check that....it just sounds strange).


Robert



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Von: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> im Auftrag von Yang Li <yangli at clemson.edu>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Juni 2018 19:30
An: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Betreff: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk API package remove does not check dependency


While we are testing functionality of spacewalk from spacewalk web GUI, we discovered that if we uninstall following packages from spacewalk web GUI



  *   mysql-community-libs-compat-5.7.17-1.el7.x86_64
  *   mysql-community-libs-5.7.17-1.el7.x86_64



it uninstalls them without any warning.



But if we run yum on system, it clearly states that net-snmp and postfix are depending on mysql-community-libs.



What exactly spacewalk web GUI use for package management? Why it does not check for package dependencies?



Thanks,

Yang
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